| has gloss | eng: Chamber of Fasci and Corporations (Camera dei Fasci e delle Corporazioni) was the official name of the Italian Chamber of Deputies established on January 19, 1939, to replace the Chamber of Deputies during the 30th legislature of Italy. The Chamber was vested with legislative power from March 23, 1939 to August 2, 1943, during the height of Benito Mussolinis National Fascist Party regime, with its representatives dubbed "national councilors" (consiglieri nazionali), rather than deputies. The councillors of the chamber did not represent geographic constituencies, but the different branches of the trade and industry of Italy, resembling the corporativist idea of the fascist ideology. Councillors were elected for terms of undeterminate length, and automatically lost their seats upon their defection from the branch they did represent. Renewment of the legislature was ordered by decree by the King of Italy, purposely on the instruction of the prime minister (Mussolini). |